The Eight-Tails said, "All right, since you put it that way, I'll give it to you. Honestly, I'm curious too. With a personality as difficult as yours, what kind of person is this boy to have changed you? If I hadn't seen it myself, I wouldn't have believed it, no matter who told me."
With that, the Eight-Tails held out a fist. The Nine-Tails bumped it and accepted the Eight-Tails' chakra, igniting a flame at the tip of one of the nine tails behind him. The Nine-Tails glanced at his tails. He had now gathered chakra from the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and Eight-Tails, along with his own. Only the Three-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails remained. Once he gathered chakra from those three Tailed Beasts, Naruto could become a pseudo Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and he himself would have a chance to break free of the Ten-Tails' hold.
After accepting the Eight-Tails' chakra, the Nine-Tails gave the Eight-Tails a disdainful look. "Like you're any better than me. Naruto's pretty decent, all things considered. Apart from acting like an idiot sometimes, he's fine. Unlike your Jinchuriki-he's a complete clown. And you actually became friends with him. Is that what they call birds of a feather?"
He then eyed the Eight-Tails and Killer B suspiciously, his gaze moving back and forth between them as though he were examining something.
This time, the Eight-Tails couldn't take it anymore. "Hey, Kurama, you bastard! What are you looking at? B might be a bit of a clown sometimes, but he's no idiot like your Naruto, you bastard!"
The Eight-Tails expected the Nine-Tails to get angry and had already braced for a fierce argument. Yet the Nine-Tails wasn't angry at all; he simply stared at the Eight-Tails strangely. That puzzled the Eight-Tails and made his skin crawl with a